A big thanks to Mysterious Stranger for pointing this out to me via my Twitter feed!  Dave Perillo has posted a couple of very interesting pieces of art on his site, Montygog’s Art-O-Rama, featuring very stylistic G.I. Joe and COBRA caricatures.  I’m loving ‘em!  Check out the G.I. Joe one here, and the COBRA one right here.

So with the recent finishing of a hellish month of training and testing I had some spare time this past weekend, and did up a silly little music video for G.I. Joe: Resolute.  It’s nothing great, just a project that kept me entertained for a few hours. 

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Coming from what is likely a French source (hence the subtitles), the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA trailer has landed at TrailerAddict.com!  Check out the embedded goodness below.  WOW!

Is it my G.I. Joe?  Nope.  But it looks like a pretty damn fun summer action flick.  Bring it on.

Well, the full run of Webisodes have aired, and they’re all up on YouTube now.  And if you check out my customized playlist below, they’ll play all in order in one shot!  Enjoy! 

Amazon has posted new listings for a couple of upcoming IDW products, including Marvel reprints Volume 6 and the COBRA Trade Paperback.  There are no covers posted yet, but it’s very interesting to note that  Volume 6 of the Marvel reprints will likely start reprinting comics that have not been collected as of yet into previous Trade Paperbacks, so it’s a great chance to pick up where you left off on the Marvel series.

Big thanks to Jeff Bohn for the info!

HissTank is reporting that online retailer (and GeneralsJoes sponsor ) BigBadToyStore now has the new classic-themed 5-packs in stock.  Priced at $29.99, the G.I. Joe 5-Pack features Hawk, Snake Eyes, Lady Jaye, Flint, and Shipwreck all heavily inspired by their cartoon looks, with a nice allotment of new tooling and new accessories!  The COBRA 5-Pack has COBRA Commander, the Baroness, Storm Shadow, Zartan, and the COBRA Viper with the same dose of new gear and new parts.

Most notable in these packs are the fixed tooling on the COBRA Viper arms, the significantly improved Baroness figure, a short-sleeved old-school accurate Flint, plus many other long overdue changes.  Great looking new figures from Hasbro!

Buzz about G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA has been noticably silent over the past few months, but with the trailer debuting during the Super Bowl and Toy Fair only a couple of weeks away, that promises to change in a big way.  AintItCoolNews.com gets a jump on that today with 5 new posters featuring the characters from the film:

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I’m remaining cautiously optimistic… err…  probably more like cautiously pessimistic about how the film is going to end up, but I’m at least giving it a shot.  I do like these posters, though.  A somewhat dark and gritty theme.  They don’t really “speak” to me, but I think they’re pretty cool looking, at any rate.  Hopefully cool enough to entice audiences into the theaters.  Time will tell.

Make sure to keep your eyes on GiJoeMovie.com as well, as I’m sure activity will intensify there after the trailer is revealed.

So the latest swath of Wal-Mart early product lists have been revealed on the oft-overlooked JoeBattleLines forums.  Big props to “Ghost Target” for his tireless research. 

And of course, as usual, I have my own thoughts on some upcoming items for 2009…

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EDIT – Okay, apparently I totally misread the press release…turns out Dixon’s book doesn’t continue from the 80’s Hamaverse, it’s a “future” look at the Hamaverse that’s coming up in ‘09.  Hrm.  Weird.  Not sure what I feel about that, but I’ll check it out as it gets released…

The news comes from Phil Kost’s excellent JoeReloaded website/forum and comes straight from an IDW Press Release.  According to this press release, there will be THREE ongoing G.I. Joe comic book series next year…G.I. Joe overload!

The primary title, simply called G.I. Joe, will be written by Chuck Dixon with art by Robert Atkins…and it takes place in the Hamaverse!  Saweet!

Yeah, apparently it’s a future Hamaverse, not the old school Hamaverse, and it’s exploring a new timeline in a future with characters we don’t even know yet.  Confused?  Yeah, me too.

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I already did the MASS Device yesterday.  Now we continue the celebration of the Sunbow cartoon (as well as the release of the DVD Battle Packs) by rolling my Top 5 Moments from the Revenge of COBRA.

In some ways better than the MASS Device (at least in my opinion), The Revenge of COBRA follows a nearly identical formula, yet adds some twists and turns.  New characters arrive, action sequences are ramped up.  It follows the tradition of the MASS Device perfectly.  But what are my Top 5 Moments?

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